"One frightened squaddie", indeed. Is that how you classify members of the 1st Parachute Regiment?

As for Feonns' problem, Mick...don't mind him. I have met very few Scots, Welsh, Manx, or Cornish people who classify themselves as British.
British is a state of mind, not a nationality. And it's as outdated as 'Bosh', 'The Raj', and 'Rhodesia'

I told him ages ago to go play on the railway lines.

Why isn't he still there, I wonder?

B.